In association with the Magnum City to Sea workshop program, an initative of Magnum Photos & Goldsmiths with support from iconic holidaymakers Butlins, British photographer Peter Marlow will deliver an inspirational career overview touching on 40 years of his fascinating photography.

Although gifted in the language of photojournalism, Peter Marlow is not a photojournalist. He was initially, however, one of the most enterprising and successful young British news photographers, and in 1976 joined the Sygma agency in Paris. He soon found that he lacked the necessary appetite for the job while on assignment in Lebanon and Northern Ireland during the late 1970s; he discovered that the stereotype of the concerned photojournalist disguised the disheartening reality of dog-eat-dog competition between photographers hunting fame at all costs.

Since those days, Marlow's aesthetic has shifted - in that he makes mainly color photographs - but his approach is unchanged. The color of incidental things became central to his pictures in the same way that the shape and mark of things had been central to his black-and-white work.

Marlow has come full circle. He started his career as an international photojournalist, returned to Britain to examine his own experience, and discovered a new visual poetry that enabled him to understand his homeland. Having found this poetry, he has taken it back on the road: he now photographs as much in Japan, the USA and elsewhere in Europe as he does in the UK.

In 2011, Marlow gave a keynote speech at Goldsmith's City to Sea symposium. Following on from this event's success, Magnum Photos & Goldsmiths will host a very unique photography workshop in the historic seaside town of Bognor Regis, hosted by Butlins, in mid March. For more information about this workshop visit: http://tiny.cc/i5qmrw

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